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  • The Abduction Club (2002)
    Review preview for The Abduction Club

    As a costume romance, based on real events, it is inept.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Younger sons of aristocrats in Ireland, 1780, join a club and kidnap rich unmarried girls.
  • Breakfast On Pluto (2005)
    Review preview for Breakfast On Pluto

    Breakfast On Pluto's tone is a discomforting mixture of comedy and tragedy.

    Richard Mellor · 4 out of 5
    An Irish transvestite, searching for the mother who abandoned him, is caught up in terrorist violence and hilarious goings on in London.
  • Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)
    Review preview for Blood: The Last Vampire

    Chris Chow's script makes it seem as if whole scenes have been left out.

    Andrew Robertson · 2 out of 5
    A vampire schoolgirl hunts monsters for the government.
  • The Childhood Of A Leader (2015)
    Review preview for The Childhood Of A Leader

    After all, what’s so sinister about reading Aesop’s Fables? Everything and nothing, Corbet suggests.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Fable about the rise of fascism set in post-First World War Europe.
  • Dog Soldiers (2002)
    Review preview for Dog Soldiers

    Very easy to like.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Soldiers on training exercise in Scotland meet hungry werewolves.
  • The Escapist (2008)
    Review preview for The Escapist

    Proficient entertainment that marks debut writer/director Wyatt out as a filmmaker to watch.

    Paul Griffiths · 3.5 out of 5
    A prison inmate must break out to make amends with his dying daughter.
  • The Guard (2011)
    Review preview for The Guard

    McDonagh takes what could be a hackneyed tale of mismatched buddy cops and spins it to blisteringly funny effect.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A small-town cop in Ireland finds himself drawn into an uneasy partnership with an FBI agent trying to smash a drug smuggling racket.
  • Harry Brown (2009)
    Review preview for Harry Brown

    While Caine’s no nonsense heroics will captivate, however, this is ultimately a single-minded affair, manipulating and twisting its way around audience heartstrings with unremitting sentimentality.

    Adam Woodward · 3 out of 5
    An elderly widower takes on a group of teenagers who are terrorising the estate.
  • Hunger (2008)
    Review preview for Hunger

    Despite the filth, the violence and the desolation, McQueen’s portrait is a thing of brutal beauty in terms of its composition.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Examination of the events leading up to and during Bobby Sands' 1981 hunger strike. Winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes.
  • Let Us Prey (2014)
    Review preview for Let Us Prey

    Credit must go to cinematographer Piers McGrail whose sumptuous visuals add to the tension and creeping sense of dread.

    Robert Munro · 4 out of 5
    Held in a remote police station, a mysterious stranger takes over the minds and souls of everyone inside.
  • The Last Voyage Of The Demeter (2023)
    Review preview for The Last Voyage Of The Demeter

    Unfortunately, despite a highly capable cast, this adaptation just doesn’t have much wind in its sails.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    On board the Russian schooner Demeter, 24 unmarked wooden crates are being transported from Carpathia to London. But as cargo animals and the crew start turning up dead, a mysterious stowaway sets out to convince the doomed sailors they’re dealing with more than just a rabies outbreak, something more in the supernatural realm.
  • The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
    Review preview for The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

    The character-based comedy mostly works as well as it does on the show, but the laboured and frequently infantile storylines make the film fall flat on its face when it's not half way up its own arse.

    Scott Macdonald · 2.5 out of 5
    Convoluted comedy from TV-based series that questions the meaning of reality.
  • Palestine 36 (2025)
    Review preview for Palestine 36

    Jacir's film might look back to the 1930s but it's a film that is in conversation with the present-day.

    Casper Borges · 3 out of 5
    In 1936, as Palestinian villages revolt against British colonial rule, Yusuf navigates between Jerusalem and his rural home, amidst escalating unrest and a pivotal moment for the British Empire.
  • Pitch Black Heist (2011)
    Review preview for Pitch Black Heist

    Shot in lush, vivid black and white, the film carries a sense of age and expectation.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Two men team up to rob an office safe but they must work around a light-triggered alarm system.
  • Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness (2003)
    Review preview for Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness

    The script by Peter Berry is sharp, tight, witty and intelligent, matched by supremely confidant actors, working in the Prime Suspect style of disciplined individuality.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Helen Mirren returns as tough cop Jane Tennyson in a Bosnian murder mystery in London.
  • When The Sky Falls (1999)
    Review preview for When The Sky Falls

    John Mackenzie, who made the neo-classic Brit mobster movie, The Long Good Friday, 21 years ago, directs with a similar degree of commitment.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Fictionalised retelling of the life and assassination of Irish crime reporter Veronica Guerin.
  • The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006)
    Review preview for The Wind That Shakes The Barley

    You could talk your way round the houses and still come up with very good reasons for believing that when Loach goes political, he makes Karl Marx look benign.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    The budding years of the IRA as country boys oppose the brutal suppression of the Black & Tans

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